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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Mar 23, 2020, 12:59 PM Mar 2020

Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson 'Feeling Better' Two Weeks After Coronavirus Diagnosis

Tom Hanks announced Sunday night on Twitter that he and his wife Rita Wilson “feel better” two weeks after their first coronavirus symptoms began showing. He encouraged his followers to practice social distancing and reassured them that “this, too, shall pass.”

“Sheltering in place works like this: You don’t give it to anyone — you don’t get it from anyone,” Hanks wrote. “Common sense, no? Going to take a while, but if we take care of each other, help where we can and give up some comforts…this, too, shall pass. We can figure this out.”


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Hanks and Wilson were two of the first known celebrity cases of COVID-19; Hanks made the announcement on March 12th. The pair discovered they had the virus while in Australia, and they have been self-isolating in a rental home ever since. Hanks was there to begin filming on an as-yet-untitled Elvis Presley biopic directed by Baz Luhrmann, and production was halted following his diagnosis. Queensland Health officials believe that Hanks and Wilson contracted the virus in the U.S.

Wilson also posted an Instagram video on Sunday featuring her rapping along to Naughty By Nature’s “Hip Hop Hooray.” She captioned the video, “Quarantine Stir Crazy. See it to believe it.”

https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-BqChYnY6F/?utm_source=ig_embed

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-coronavirus-feeling-better-971228/
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Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson 'Feeling Better' Two Weeks After Coronavirus Diagnosis (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2020 OP
good... but they aren't out of the woods yet lapfog_1 Mar 2020 #1
True Cirque du So-What Mar 2020 #2

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
1. good... but they aren't out of the woods yet
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 01:02 PM
Mar 2020

a lot of people in China got better after 10 days to 2 weeks... only to suffer a "crash" in the following week.

OTOH, I'm sure that Tom and Rita have the very best care and monitoring.

Cirque du So-What

(25,931 posts)
2. True
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 01:12 PM
Mar 2020

If it were some other Tom and Rita from, say, Upper Buttcrack, Idaho, I wouldn't be so optimistic about their prognosis.

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